I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Nothing is black or white.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

The day of individual happiness has passed

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Freedom is from within.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.